I am planning to paint a colour master copy of ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ and did this brunaille to practice for it. I used raw umber and white.
Girl in profile
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Charcoal figure study
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Portrait in oil
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Portrait study in oil
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Charcoal portrait study
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Monochrome portrait study
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Monochrome study in acrylics
Experiments with acrylics
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I decided that I’d like to have another go with using acrylics for figure painting. I’ve tried them before for portraits and in a life class, but always ended up with unsatisfactory results because it’s so hard to blend the … Continue reading
Exercise: Portrait from memory
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For this exercise I wanted to see if I could draw my mother from memory. Before she died some years ago, I sketched her quite a lot. She was bedbound for ten years before she died so her posture became … Continue reading
American Indian Portraits – George Catlin
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